Gorky said: “Books are the ladder of human progress.” Book design as an important part of graphic design to art in the form of a book to help readers understand the content, increase the reader's interest in reading. Magazine is a special book, “Miscellaneous” is a variety of means, “Chi” refers to written notes or record the text. Magazine cover appearance, both reflect the magazine's content, nature, and You Ji readers of beauty, and also plays a role in the protection of books.
flac to mp3 converterMagazine cover design, the general continuity. Such as “Juvenile Literature”, “Readers”, “Youth Digest”, “modern family” and so on. The main consideration in the design of the magazine name and echoed with the name of the pattern decoration, etc. In addition, the sponsor of era name, month, number of installments, there will be a bar code printed on the cover. Magazines, whether it is biweekly or monthly, bimonthly, quarterly, has a certain timing, the timing of the publication determines the continuity and unity. Monthly, one-year 12, which 12 have a common, continuous features. Even a month for a background, or change the location of titles, but still there is a run through the phases of the overall identity, or the same magazine font name, or a composition with the same layout, in the unity of phases obtained among the changes.
When we entered the bookstore is not difficult to find, beautifully produced magazine, regardless of design, material, production and so closely linked to the magazine. There are also some magazines, and blindly to the piling up on the cover of “printing effects” and sometimes a cover, there are several printing effect. The more effective the higher the cost of the truth we know everything, therefore, adopted after the result is greatly improved so that the cost of the magazine not only increased the burden on the reader to buy, and the effects are not very good. Therefore, the cover should be designed to grasp the design principle: that to follow the principle of formal beauty, fully reflect the content of books, which should be designed to interact with your readers blend.
Magazine cover design, including shape, word, color, composition
1. Cover design of the shape
Mainly refers to the cover-shaped appearance and inner shape (text, graphics, etc.). Cover specially designed shape except for a few things generally rectangular or square, which is determined by the magazine Folio. Sometimes, in order to design the needs of the paper to the extent permitted aspect ratio can be adjusted to change the usual shape. Cover the content type that text and graphics. Sometimes, the title of a book can be posed in several different fonts, but should be in one of the main font. In addition to functions described in the text, but also a graphical function.
2. Cover design of the word
A magazine cover, you can no graphics, but it can not do without the text, the text has both linguistic meaning, is also an abstract graphic symbol, which is the point, line and surface design of the complex. If a word can be seen as a point, line of characters can be seen as a line, a paragraph of text can be seen as a noodle. In the design, if the pictures and text are a high priority to stress that the results tend to appear haphazard layout, the two parties are not prominent. Therefore, text and graphics should be relatively concentrated layout, rhythm and form in reading levels, so that a compact text, graphics and flexible.
3. Cover design color
Cover color choice is very important, because the reader into the bookstore browsing books, the first thing that catches the eye on entering is the color. Colors red, yellow, blue, gray, black, gold, silver in a variety of colors, form the world of colorful magazine covers. Such as using gray as the background, you can set off the colorful text, graphics, both co-ordination and noticeable bright, with high purity and color arrangement, in particular the stimulation and active; harmony and unity of tone, making people feel warm and cozy; the use of color paper for the tone, giving people the feeling is natural, refreshing and so forth. Sometimes, the pursuit of novelty of the personality traits that can be played on a regular basis, such as the use of non-color tone can also colorful sea of books stand out. Color cover design by the contents of the book and reading the object's age, cultural level and other characteristics of the decision. Children's books over the use of bright colors, showing the most suitably youthful red and green colors; calm and harmony of color applied, the elderly reading; between Chromic and gray colors appropriate for young people between the reading. For the reader, because of cultural awareness, ethnic, occupational differences of color have different preferences.
4. Cover design composition
Cover design of the composition is to text, graphics, color and other rational arrangements for the process, in which the dominant role in the text, graphics, color and other role is to set off the title. Under normal circumstances, the text vertically arranged, with serious, upright character. This was the book form of the traditional composition. Horizontal composition, gives a calm, steady sense of the level of the books were ordered to bring balance to give an overall effect. Tilt-type arrangement, you can break the screen is too smooth, in order to more changes, the use of appropriate help to reinforce the theme of books and periodicals. Cover design shape to be marked with a reading age, cultural level characteristics. The image should be specific to the children's books, true, accurate, and composition should be lively, informative and interesting to highlight in particular, generally with the exaggerated nature of imaginary, personification, games, sex, humor, illustration, etc. to carry out creative design. Children's is precisely the period in the so-called visual age, children's books for their visual impact is more important and direct. It can foster children's emotional and rich imagination, which is what they will be a source of success and happiness. Pairs of middle-aged to older adults, books, images can be shifted gradually from the concrete in the abstract, symbolic approach should be adopted, composition may also be in the form of a lively turn on the serious and solemn form.
A designer should be established Folio, materials and printing process conditions, through imagination, in order to mobilize their design and make artistic aesthetic pursuit and magazines “cultural patterns” of the intrinsic echoes. In order to enrich the performance of techniques to enrich the performance of the content, so that an intuitive understanding of visual thinking and visual thinking, reasoning, understanding of access to a high degree of unity in order to meet the readers knowledge, imagination, and aesthetic requirements of many.